"Brown-shirts"

Joe Wilson Rips the Bush-Cheney Gang:

Somewhere along the line, Wilson speculated, the Bush-Cheney Gang has decided that the best way to take him out was “to also take my family out!” He speculated that it was publicly battering him in order to send a message to others that they would suffer a similar fate as he, (and his wife), if they were to dare to “step forward into the public square and to challenge the way this government took us to war.” The powers that be want to make people, who work in the government, “very afraid, and, indeed, people have been afraid” to speak out, Wilson reported...

With respect to Judy Miller: Was she trying to protect [Dick] Cheney? It’s just all too murky for me to try and figure out...I just want to talk about the fact that she spent 85 days in jail because Lewis Libby was too cowardly to step forward and accept responsibility for his own actions. This is a man who has the title of ‘Assistant to the President of the United States.’ This is a man who swore an oath to uphold and defend the Constitution of the United States... This is a serial abuser...

I don’t know how else you fight, than to get in there and fight and confront the school yard bullies. [They] are absolutely determined to destroy me personally, my integrity, my wife, her integrity, my character and our lives. And, if you don’t stand up and fight for that, what the hell are you going to stand up and fight for? Now in the end, it is also a fight for how we conduct the debate in the public square. That is what this is all about. Are we as Americans going to take this? These guys are ‘Brownshirts!’ This is essentially what we are talking about here. We are talking about a small group of people who masquerade as Republicans, but are not Republicans at all. They are radicals...